Striking
Mexico City Students Send Solidarityto CUNY Students Arrested for
Protesting
David "Death Squad" Petraeus

The following resolution was passed on the night of
September 18 by the students on the barricades of the strike
and occupation of Mexico's National School of Anthropology
and History (ENAH). It was confirmed the next day by an
assembly of some 80 strikers. The strike at the ENAH,
located on the south side of Mexico City, has been going on
since last Friday (Sept. 13), as part of the fight to
mobilize a huelga nacional (national strike) of labor,
together with students and other sectors, in support of the
"teacher insurgency" gripping Mexico for the past several
weeks. The Spanish original of the resolution, which was
submitted by our comrades of the Grupo Internacionalista, is
printed following this English translation.

Comrades:

We have been informed that yesterday [September 17], the New
York police brutally attacked the peaceful demonstration you
were carrying out in repudiation of war criminal David
Petraeus at the City University of New York. The attempt to
militarize CUNY in the service of the U.S. imperialist
murderers must not and shall not pass! As the result of this
violent attack by the racist New York police is the arrest of
six comrades. From the Escuela Nacional de Antropología e
Historia (ENAH – National School of Anthropology and History),
on strike since September 13, we send you a warm salute of
internationalist solidarity. We demand that all the charges
against you be dropped immediately.

We would like you to know that here in Mexico City we are
mobilizing in defense of public education. Since August 20,
tens of thousands of valiant education workers from the
Coordinadora Nacional de Trabajadores de la Educación (CNTE –
National Coordinating Committee of Education Workers) have
been in Mexico City mobilizing in defense of public education.
Last Friday, their plantón[tent city] of protest
in the Zócalo [Mexico City's central plaza] was destroyed in a
police/military attack so that the president could carry out
the annual ritual of the flag-waving[patriotera]
independence day commemoration. The capital city's government
solicitously participated in the repression against the
teachers, also unleashing its granadero riot
police to repress us with their billy clubs and tear gas when
we blocked the Periphery Ring roadway while the repression was
taking place in the Zócalo.

It was against this repressive onslaught that we decided to
start a strike of unlimited duration. Various schools
throughout the Valley of Mexico are joining this strike: the
Faculty of Philosophy and Letters, the South campus of the
College of Sciences and Humanities, the National School of
Music, and other parts of the UNAM (National Autonomous
University of Mexico); three of the four campuses of the
Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana (Autonomous Metropolitan
University), the four campuses of the Universidad Autónoma de
la Ciudad de México (Autonomous University of Mexico City),
etc.

Comrades: Your struggle inspires us. We hope that you will
also make the struggle we are carrying out here your own
struggle too. Down with capital's attacks on education
throughout the world!